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->''You can picture happy gatherings''\\'''Round the fireside long ago,''\\''And you think of tearful partings''\\''When they left you here below.''\\

->''Will the circle be unbroken''\\''By and by, by and by?''\\''Is a better home a-waiting''\\''In the sky, in the sky?''-->-- '''Elizabeth''', "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"

''[=BioShock Infinite=]'' is the third game in the ''Franchise/BioShock'' series, taking place in 1912.

Booker [=DeWitt=] is a washed-up ex-PinkertonDetective whose gambling debts catch up to him and force him to accept [[OneLastJob one final chance]] to wipe the slate clean. He finds himself sent to Columbia, [[FloatingContinent a floating city]] that was once the pride of the United States before it went rogue and became a sovereign city. There, he must extract a young woman named Elizabeth and bring her unharmed to his {{Mysterious Employer}}s in New York.

But all is not well in the city of Columbia, once heralded as an embodiment of the AmericanDream. Tension is bubbling under the surface between two opposing factions: The Founders, an ultra-nationalist, xenophobic and fundamentalist ruling class led by "Father" Zachary Hale Comstock; and the Vox Populi (led by the radical Daisy Fitzroy), a movement who once sought fair and just working conditions for the underclass of Columbia, but has [[HeWhoFightsMonsters since degenerated]] into [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized a terrorist group]] fuelled by [[BombThrowingAnarchist blind hatred]] and bent on shooting everything on sight.

Booker soon discovers that Elizabeth holds an incredible power within her, one that Father Comstock is determined to keep under his control. They must work together to escape the powderkeg that is Columbia, all while evading the dreaded [[TheDreaded Songbird]]: [[ImplacableMan a deranged robotic guardian determined to stop Elizabeth from ever leaving]].

Multiple {{DLC}}s have been released, the most notable one being the two-parter arc, titled ''"Burial at Sea"''. Acting as a WhatIf scenario, the plot follows an alternate Booker and Elizabeth who meet under different circumstances to the core game: instead of Columbia, the duo meets in the underwater city of Rapture from ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' and ''VideoGame/BioShock2''. The arc was first released in November 2013, with the conclusion following in March 2014. The trailer for ''Part One'' can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M5Tbos3M1g here]]. Note that the ''Part Two'' trailer is built on [[LateArrivalSpoiler spoilers]] if you haven't finished the main game and the first part; nevertheless, it can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUQsbEO0bGw here]] at your own risk.

Aside from the ''Buried at Sea'' DLC, the game has also seen ''Clash in the Clouds'', a pack which takes the form of four arena maps. Booker and Elizabeth square off against fifteen waves of enemies and face optional challenges. It also allows the unlocking of concept art, music and other supplementary material. Furthermore, players can purchase a season pass which, aside from getting all DLC at a discount, provides the ''Early Bird Special Pack'' [[BribingYourWayToVictory pre-order boosts]] for the main plot: four unique perk outfits, five free infusion bottles, and the machine gun and pistol get free damage boosts and golden skins.

Columbia appears as a stage in ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' along with the original ''[=BioShock=]'''s Big Daddy as a playable character.

An UpdatedRerelease containing all {{DLC}}s came out in November 2014.